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<ul><li>Temperatures are rising because we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere, by burning fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and oil, and by clearing forests. </li></ul>WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?

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<ul><li>The United States and Australia have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol. </li></ul><ul><li>The U.S. is responsible for about a quarter of the emissions that have been blamed for global warming. </li></ul>Kyoto Protocol

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<ul><li>From 1971 to 2005 CO2 vehicle emissions rose from 1.8 billion tons per year to 4.6 billion tons per year. </li></ul><ul><li>The average global air temperature rose between 0.5 and 0.74 degrees C during the past century. </li></ul><ul><li>An average 2 degrees C warming is predicted by 2100. </li></ul><ul><li>Sea level has risen between 10 to 25 cm in the last 100 years. </li></ul>

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The Earth is getting warmer. What causes the warming is hotly debated.

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<ul><li>Global warming's harmful potential has been proved; now we must prevent it from getting worse. </li></ul><ul><li>OR </li></ul><ul><li>The evidence is inconclusive; trying to prevent global warming could destroy the economy. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Who is responsible for slowing global warming, and at what cost? </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Climate change may just be too big and too vague a problem for people to want to invest in trying to solve. People like to fund things they know will work. </li></ul>

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<ul><li>It will be the political process and fear of the unknown that will generate the needed response by developed countries to mitigate carbon emissions worldwide, if this response is generated at all. </li></ul>